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Once again South Africa was gripped by painful and potentially dangerous spasms of repression-unrest-repression, a cycle that has periodically haunted the country since the early '60s. With each peak of confrontation the state of affairs has worsened, while the essential issues have remained as unresolved as ever. Not since 1960, when 69 black protesters were killed by police at Sharpeville, had the government been forced to impose a state of emergency, a fact that caused concern not only in Pretoria, South Africa's capital, but in nations around the world...
Three days later, as the unrest, powered by what Naudé calls "the anger of the voteless," flickered on despite the emergency, another prominent churchman spoke at a mass funeral service in the township of KwaThema, 35 miles east of Johannesburg, to deliver a message to both black and white South Africans. He was Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of Johannesburg, the black South African who last year was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his long struggle against apartheid. Only two weeks before, the dynamic, gray-haired bishop had saved the life of a black suspected of being a police informer...
...shares with her countrymen of every race: a fear of violence, a drive for survival. The Afrikaner right wing is particularly concerned, watching with a sense of both worry and self-justification every development in black Africa, and especially in neighboring Zimbabwe, where the remaining whites are concerned about unrest between black tribal groups, erosion of their own political position, and the plans of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe to turn the country into a one-party state. The creation of South African parliamentary chambers for colored and Indian representation, not to mention the repeal of the racial sex laws...
...currently in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. The A.N.C. has received support from the Soviet Union, as well as some Western nations, and is increasingly co operating with the also banned South African Communist Party. The alliance has made it convenient for the Pretoria government to describe the township unrest as Communist inspired. Over the years, the A.N.C. has trained guerrilla fighters at camps in various black African countries and staged a number of border attacks and acts of sabotage. Its present strength is estimated to be about 7,000 armed men, but it suffered a severe setback last year...
...Harvard African Students’ Association, have spoken out against the policy and set up an online petition at travelpolicypetition.org. It is aimed at convincing Harvard administrators to remove the school’s restrictions on travel not only to Israel, but also to other nations with political unrest and dangerous conditions...